Monday, June 30, 2014

Like this shot here. We spent an hour figuring out which
pair of my old beat up Chucks to star
in the photo, then most of the day shooting 80 different shots of different
pairs of shoes, mixed w a variety of campaign imagery. We passionately debated
ad strategy right over the top of what
had promised to be an enjoyable lunch break and then studied 9 prototypes of
format and at one point even invested, I kid you not, 35 minutes trying out
umpteen variations of the pink color for the type. And then what? Our brave
little emailer heads out to do battle for your attention w all the other end-of-the-quarter
ads from bigger name candidates with better funded campaigns. The whole thing
might just roll snake eyes.

I want you to support my campaign
because you know it is the right thing to do, because you know I am trying my
best & because you have faith that things can change.You keep me funded
and I will keep at it. That simple. It’s not easy and it’s not quick, but
if we work we can get there.

In time for his
pretrial hearing Monday July 7th in Yavapai County, certified AZ
medical marijuana patient Chris Martin, a celebrated chef and the founder of Billy
Zonka 's edibles
and the trendy ZonkaGear clothing line,
is also facing more than 125yrs of charges for creating cannabis concentrates
while he had an AZ MMJ patient card. This case has generated national attention
and been profiled in PHX New Times:

In conjunction w Safer AZ and The Human
Solution East Valley, Martin will be holding a press conference
at Up in Smoke smoke shop in Tempe, Arizona
to educate the public on the rights of defendants charged w cannabis offenses .
Also on hand will be another celebrated AZMMJ patient being prosecuted under
outrageous charges. Billy Hayes, another noted MMJ activist and prosecuted MMJ patient, will be on the panel.

The panel will discuss
the struggles mmj patients face when prosecuted and what protections are needed
to be built into the upcoming 2016 citizens' initiative for legalization. Safer
AZ, Arizona’s cannabis reform PAC, sponsored the 2014 AZ marijuana legalization
citizens initiative and is currently working with the cannabis reform groups
and national cannabis reform leader, the Marijuana Policy Project, on the public
outreach and drafting phases of the 2016
campaign.

Come to the event to share your experiences. Learn more about defendants’
rights and learn more about how you can help make marijuana legal in AZ in
2016.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The Lake Havasu Chamber of Commerce has hosted candidate forums before, but this year they aslo asked if candidates will fill out this survey of what our plans are and what they have to do w Lake Havasu.

Here's what I said;

1) Why Are You Running For Office? I am running for office because the "conservative values
agenda" over the past 40 yrs has mismanaged my country to the point of
near collapse and civil war. So we find ourselves in a sense of national
emergency where good citizens should act. I have spent my life working on being
what I believe is good citizenship, so I must act. When I looked at the problem
of the GOP destruction of the country I worked to challenge them in a variety
of ways before coming to believe that my particular skill set could best be
used to form a political campaign to throw the traitors out of power, to cause
the public to see the error of the GOP ways. I worked in other people's
campaigns enough to learn I had to take up the battle myself and I could make
the biggest difference being being a candidate.

2) What Are Your Qualifications? My most important qualification, which my opponents
appear to not have, is that I care about the lives of all Americans,
especially those who suffer at the hands of the powerful and wealthy, and
that empathy shapes my decision making. I do not look at who has the most power
and how do I advance them and garner reward for myself. This is the central
difference between myself and candidates and politicians who promote the
"conservative values agenda." Beyond that, I have numerous expected
skills for a candidate: I am creative, intelligent, fun, apparently
charismatic, extremely persistent and willing to push myself to make things
work. I am very good at bargaining, both in pressing to get what I am after,
but also in helping the other person feel like a winner and a collaborator. I
am well educated and keep informed. Plus, I can multi-task to an extraordinary
degree.

3) How Do You Plan to Support Business? I plan to invite business to help shape my agenda within these
parameters. I want business to feel that the government is here to support and
not to harm and then of course, business needs to act like government is an
ally, not an enemy to do their part in promoting partnerships. I plan to
improve infrastructure and increase government spending in community and
infrastructure development. I plan to evaluate existing restrictive regulations
and where possible, eliminate them or pare back on the oppressive components,
but not at the expense of protecting the general public from abusive or exploitative business practices.
I plan to promote a 21st century economy and provide transition support from
the 20th century petroleum based economy to a 21st century diversified energy
resource based economy. Lastly, I pledge to fight against the attacks on
government social services, which shatter consumer spending power and weken
citizen confidence.

4) What Will Your Duties & Responsibilities Be If You
Are Elected? My number one duty is to act in a way
that stays focused on doing things to improve the lives of 1st the
residents of AZ-04 and then the country as a whole. It is my duty to support
people, plans and processes that advance the wellbeing of our country and
against actions that harm us. With that in mind, my responsibilities must
include: 1) Being attentive to opinions of both my supporters and detractors,
2) Keeping my re-election campaign and party politics from directing my
decisions. 3) Finding the truth in disputes, no matter whose side ultimately
proves to be right. 4) Applying my creativity and the problem-solving power of
the best team I can assemble to address AZ-04 issues continuingly, 7 days a
week at the same pace I have campaigned for the job. & Lastly, 5)
Negotiating the political landscape in a way that focuses on building allies
not unscrupulously inventing and attacking enemies at the expense of the common
interest.

5) What are the top three issues in our state? The number one issue for Arizona is water, in specific, but
utilities in general: Our country is veering toward a water crisis and AZ is
the leading edge. We must have a way to generate the water needs for the
present, of course, but having sufficient water resources is the only way to
build a bigger economic future for the state. Solar generated power en masse,
the safe development and utilization of our gas and coal resources is part of
this issue as is erecting a fully expanded grid of electricity and
communication services is part of path to future of AZ. Next is rural
development. 21st century business practices make it possible
to develop rural access to services and products as never before. AZ's rural
communities are ripe for interests that want to develop, not exploit them.
Lastly, our emaciated educational system in the state must be reinvigorated if
we are ever going to have a society that benefits all its citizens. Educating
the poor, rural and marginalized is the best way to improve the business
climate: better educated workers and consumers make the economy better for
everybody.

6) What State Or Federal Issues Do You See As Having A
Positive Or Negative Effect On Business In Lake Havasu? The GOP's continuing attack on education and social services is
the single greatest threat to Lake Havasu. Separately, the ACA's potential to
improve the lives of workers and the operating practices of businesses is
routinely dismissed at best, or more often attacked by the right; but this
canard has about had its day. The discussion of the future of renewable energy
sources (sun, wind, bio-algae--all of which are being developed in the area)
should be a legislative item every session. The same with the water issues I
mentioned above matter to LHC, as does the discussion about infrastructure for
transportation, communications and energy. Lastly and this is separate of the
GOP complaints above, the GOP's insistence on creating and passing state laws
that are not only bad for Arizonans; but more significantly here,
Unconstitutional, is a central legislative issue to be addressed. The energy
and resources to write and then litigiously defend flaws that will ultimately
be struck down saps so much energy and treasure it has to be mentioned.

7) What Will You Do To Support Economic Development And Tourism
Relative To Lake Havasu? I plan to support the
tourist/water recreation industry in LHC by promoting travel and investing in
infrastructure to get tourists to LHC and take care of their utility needs
while they're here. The I-11 interstate passing through our county means the
potential for highway development at all levels. Highway development goes hand
in hand w community development and would want to increase the spending on arts
and recreation services in town which make the community more attractive to
tourists and seasonal visitors. I would also work to improve social and medical
services in the area which will help w our aging visitors and residents alike.

8) What would be your method of funding public education? The federal government should take a much more robust role
in funding public education. I think that equality of access to quality
education is a fundamental right of US citizenship and a disastrously neglected
need over the centuries. All students, rural or no, should have access to a
better standard of school: maximum class sizes, a guaranteed assortment of
electives and vocational classes, counseling services, school food and clothing
programs, etc. This history of neglect requires resources only the federal
level can address. To fund this I call for an equalization of taxes, where
higher income earners continue to contribute to the tax base in their social
security and capital gains rates. I call for a re-patriotization of US
corporate profits, a structure to regulate and tax, cannabis, and an electronic
transaction tax. Lastly I call for an end to test-driven instruction and a
return to a whole student curriculum, an end to the educational agenda of the
nation being directed by a for-profit consultancy class at the expense of
teacher and local autonomy. An educational system that creates paupers and
illiterates is a burden. An educational system that advances the potential for
all Americans in effect, funds itself.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Mesa, AZ – AZ’s toughest fighting Congressional Democratic candidates
converge this Friday, June 20th, in Mesa to present their case as to
why the future of AZ is blue. Hailed as the “Gale Force Progressives,” the 3
Democrats challenging GOP incumbents in AZ’s 3 east valley Congressional
districts, 4, 5, & 6, are joining forces to hold a candidate forum that
advances some of the more cutting edge progressive ideas in the political
spectrum.

In Congressional District 4,
educator/activist/entertainer Mikel Weisser is challenging Tea Party favorite
Paul Gosar. In Congressional District 5, blind visionary James Woods is challenging
established AZ GOP leader, Matt Salmon. And, in Congressional District 6, high
school English teacher, W. John Williamson is taking on equally entrenched
Republican, David Schweikert. In each of the races the Democrat challenger is
at a stark disadvantage. In each District, registered Republicans outnumber
registered Democrats nearly 2 to 1. Yet the three Democratic challengers each somehow
found their own inspirations to take on the kind of race more traditional
politicians steer clear of.

“I knew it was an uphill battle when
I started,” laughs Weisser. “It wasn’t ever about expecting to win for me,”
says Weisser who is now in the three year of campaigning, “it is about bringing
a fight to GOP ideas I know are wrong for America. About stopping Republican
terrorism and backwards thinking and working for a 21st century
America.” Like Williamson, who still teaches 11th grade English in Scottsdale
and is also in his 2nd Congressional campaign, Weisser’s decision to
take on the quixotic battle of being an average man running for Congress came
from teaching his students civic responsibility. “Teach a class of 8th
graders how to a bill becomes law by showing them how to analyze ‘Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington’ five times a day for five years straight and there’s no way
I would not stand up for what I believe in.”

James Woods, one of the few blind
people to ever run for Congress, has an even more compelling reason to fight:
the fact that he is alive today is a miracle of modern medicine—a living
breathing success story of socialized medicine saving lives, the same kind of
socialized medicine Republican Reps. Gosar, Salmon, & Schweikert have
consistently worked against. Hospitalized for a rampant infection, Woods spent
more than six years in hospitals, often in intensive care, surviving amputations,
multiple multiple-organ failure crises, a kidney transplant and the loss of his
eyesight. Woods announced his candidacy while still in his hospital bed in
February. A proud secular humanist, Woods is using his unique candidacy to
promote progressive ideas. “There is an extraordinarily damaging disparity
between the decision-makers in Washington and the rest of us, who have to live
with the decisions they make,” Woods said. “Arizonans deserve representatives
who know what it’s like to face hard times, and what’s needed to overcome them.”

Weisser for one is ready for AZ to
get to hear some progressive ideas. “Usually the Right dominate the
conversation with their latest hooey with their purity tests of what
constitutes a ‘real American’, with their gun rights boondoggles and border
threat hysteria and all the real issues facing the country go unspoken.” Among
the issues among the candidates agenda are educational and immigration reform,
income and social inequality, the rights of the disabled and other marginalized
communities, cannabis legalization, the religious right’s attack on science, banking
regulations and the so-called “Robin Hood” electric transaction tax,
alternative energy and water policy, campaign finance and, of course, health
care. “Some of these ideas are just not discussed in political forums in this
state,” Weisser laughs, “but it’s time for AZ to move forward with the rest of
America into the 21st century.

Monday, June 16, 2014

At a time when I feared America was at its lowest point, Howard Dean's 2004 campaign for president was the jolt that got my heart pumping again. I howled when the news media turned Howard's howl into a kiss of death and cheered when DFA( under the leadership of Howard's brother Jim) rose to be a powerhouse in Democratic politics. & then, I actually started into politics and met AZ's DFA leaders like Joe Murphy, Randall Holmes, Ken Lakind, Karyn Lathan and Toby Stahl, I was thrilled to be part of a group that fights for politics on every level, in every district. In 2012, I went through the AZ DFA candidate course (and liked it so much I snuck in to the 2014 training session just to hang out ... and for the lunch, I admit it!). I still study the DFA candidates' manual and recommend it highly for any 1st time candidate. In 2013 I even went so far as to join the push to expand AZ's DFA presence outside of Maricopa County and signed on the dotted line for the charter for AZ's statewide DFA chapter.

My DFA endorsement application writing process was a highlight of my 2012 campaign. You learn so much who you are and what you value creating the multiple 500 word essays that make up the questionnaire.

My name is Mikel Weisser, a native Texan, lifelong Democrat
and one of the leading voices fighting for change in our state. My campaign
slogan is “Tell the Right They’re Wrong!” I've been fighting the right for the
past 25 yrs myself and know now is the time for we as a people and Democrats as
a party to act.

I know about action. I first took action for a cause when I
was 10 yrs old and stood up to my racist dad over having black kids at my
birthday party. I first joined an organized cause when I walked into a farm
workers strike at 19. Currently I’m vice chair of the state party’s progressive
caucus, a charter member of our state’s statewide DFA chapter, state party
regional coordinator for the legislative races in my congressional district,
legislative liaison and executive director of Safer AZ, our state cannabis
reform PAC, in addition to serving as secretary of my county party and still
being one of the state’s more popular poets and leading rural arts organizers.
My youth poetry projects ran more than 5yrs, our community book festival, which
I host, is now in its 10th year and the musical open mic I created for my local
Democratic party just celebrated its first year anniversary.

Juggling these roles and a few dozen more, I travel
thousands of miles every month, developing the grassroots Democratic
organization we must have if rural AZ is ever going to join the 21st century. A
former teen runaway and plumber, I didn’t go to college until I was 30 and
didn’t know how to type till I was 27. I put myself through college working
first as a carnie and later as homeless shelter administrator. Along the way,
I’ve collected two Masters Degrees, published hundreds of newspaper and
magazine articles (mostly political humor), self published several collections
of poetry, and taught thousands of kids US History and Government.

And that’s how I knew I had to take on the larger role of
reformer, of candidate. Each year we would start and end the school year w the
INS citizenship test and watch “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” After a dozen
years of that formula, and assisting in my wife's 2010 state senate campaign, I
stepped up to lead my local Occupy movement and, while at a demonstration, when
AZ announced the new congressional districts in 2012, someone asked me to take
on the race. I did and experienced the greatest adventure I have had in what
has been a very adventurous lifetime. In the end, while teaching full-time, I
lost the primary by 19 votes and committed to my supporters to not give up. I
would stay active and build for 3 cycles, commit to a long-range grassroots
strategy to rebuild the culture and plant the desert blue.

I left teaching one year ago to campaign full-time, continue,
as best I could, to create poetry and music shows in communities that have no
active culture, train rural candidates and parties, learn the people and the
problems we can fix. Inspire myself by inspiring others and hopefully change
the world.

2) WHAT INSPIRED YOU?

There are a thousand threads come together to make a moment
like this; but, without any doubt, my wife, Beth Weisser’s, 2010 state senate
campaign was the most important inspiration when I decided to launch my
original 2012 campaign.

(2014 campaign shot)

In summer of 2010 I was off doing my annual touring
poet adventure and came home to find Beth’s campaign in full swing. At that
point I had been an activist for more than 20 yrs and a Democratic volunteer
for half a dozen. But her courage to stand up for what she believed in, to face
a public that was majority opposition, to teach herself a whole new field of
expertise and network of individuals and organizations, her ingenuity,
practical creativity and drive were the inspiration that showed me how
important it was to have an Arizonan populist progressive movement rise right now.
I was even more profoundly struck by the fact the skills I’d gained as an
educator, activist, organizer and entertainer were the same skills it takes to
be the kind of leader who could help create that kind of movement.

I have a line in my
most famous poem, “Vocal Javelins,” that reads, “If we all wait for someone
else to do it then we’ll never get it done.” America is ready to reject the
disastrous “conservative values agenda” that’s been devastating our country for
the past 40 yrs. Their appalling record of abuse and mean-spiritedness over the
most recent 20yrs and the threats their policies and behaviors currently pose
are an inspiration all by itself—it’s called outrage. Despite the GOP’s
relentless propaganda campaign, American citizens are growing more progressive:
in lifestyles, in priorities, in agendas for the future. Elsewhere citizens and
Democrats are beginning to rise; but here in the west, in the rural “Real
America,“ we keep waiting for someone more polished and trained, someone with
more money and connections to take the reins and nothing happens. I decided to
fight because the perils of not fighting for an America I believe in were far
scarier than the thought of “losing.” We’re taught to believe that the winning
matters more than the fight and it paralyzes us. The very immensity of the
challenge of running for Congress in an R+15 district, and the fact no else had
the courage to try it, became an inspiration in itself.

Then in 2014, after 6 months of traveling the district full-time
to build the party, I was profoundly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s 2013 book, David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits
& the Art of Battling Giants. I had spent my adult life battling the
giants of my time on street corners, in classrooms and on op-ed pages, standing
up for the little guy, taking on the bullies; but I had not realized the power
of being the underdog or the importance of fighting for the oppressed, or how
my life had built me for this fight … until that moment. Since then the path is
clear: Ever up.

Friday, June 13, 2014

On the one year anniversary of launching their historic
citizens’ initiative to legalize marijuana statewide, Safer AZ, the cannabis
reform Political Action Committee, announced the group is suspending petition gathering
for the 2014 cycle to reorganize for a 2016 campaign.

At a reorganizational meeting for the group’s upcoming 2016
petitioning campaign, the initiative’s author, Dennis Bohlke, formally
announced what had long been rumored-- that the group would not reach the minimum
250,000 signatures required to qualify for the ballot. “We have enjoyed so much
good will and support around the state, we have to honor that and not leave
folks out in the field till the last minute, when Safer AZ leadership is
already planning for 2016.” The group also announced Weisser will serve as
interim executive director, as Safer AZ retools to develop a full-scale
operation for 2016, complete with a paid staff and fundraising arm of the organization.

Originally founded by David Wisniewski, a tech savvy active duty
soldier stationed in South Korea, Safer Wisniewski soon connected with Phoenix-based
computer designer Bohlke. The two
developed the organization through email and online chat. In March, Bohlke attended
a statewide meeting of AZ NORML in Sierra Vista and enlisted Tucson mmj patient
and defendants’ rights activist, Robert Clark and Kingman-area Democratic
organizer/congressional candidate, Mikel Weisser, and the PAC was born.

“So far Safer AZ has
operated as a totally volunteer organization,” Weisser explained. “We all
worked on the parts we liked and no one worked enough on central organization. We
all had fulltime commitments already. Dennis runs a computer company, I’m
running for Congress. Nobody had the time to work on it fulltime. We rarely
worked on fundraising and though we enjoyed a LOT of good will, the moneys we
received were inconsistent. You can only do so much w zero budget.”

Though the group only raised a few thousand dollars, much of
that through leadership donations, in the course of a year, Safer AZ accomplished
much. “When we started, politically the cannabis community was just a whipping
boy for the ‘Law & Order” crowd,” Weisser laughed. “Now they know we have
faces, opinions and voices. Now they know we vote.”

Devised to address cannabis reform through a variety of political
approaches, Safer AZ’s legalization drive gained national attention last summer
when the group first announced filing the initiative. In addition to the
statewide petition gathering project directed by Bohlke, David Wisniewski built
an online community through the PAC website and Facebook page that has grown to
have thousands or followers nationwide. Robert Clark continued his work w the
Human Solution (a national defendants’ rights group) and helped develop an
activist Tucson community on cannabis issues; while Weisser focused on the
state capitol and served as the group’s legislative liaison, using traditional
advocacy approaches w social media to create political pressure for cannabis
reform.

Safer AZ’s decriminalization bill HB2474 (written by Bohlke)
had 14 Democratic sponsors and got as far as the House judiciary committee
before being stopped by the GOP. The group also organized resistance to
anti-cannabis bills by state senators Kelli Ward and Kimberly Yee. In addition,
with the help of organizations like AZ NORML and the Phoenix Cannabis
Coalition, Safer AZ created several musical events for the cannabis community
often featuring cannabis friendly artists such Phoenix’s Hot Rock Supastar and
the Hippy Thug Family or Tucson’s Ezra Letra.

“I’m glad we did all the different stuff we did. It’s been a
great learning experience. We have been building for a stronger presence and
trying to pull together the different elements of AZ cannabis reform, before we
launch our 2016 package. There are numerous activist groups and stakeholder
communities in AZ’s cannabis community and they don’t always play together as
well as they should.” Weisser laughs.

Throughout the past year, the upstart Safer PAC often had to
jostle for position among the state cannabis reform leaders. “2016 is going to
require the various cannabis activists to be on the same page. I aim to be sure
ALL interested parties have a chance to write some of it,” Weisser assures.
Safer AZ will be drafting the initiative over the course of the summer and
hopes to bring together the various cannabis activist groups in the state to
contribute their part in the drafting process. “Call it a cannabis convention. We
want everyone to know their concerns are looked out for as we draft the
initiative; but, more importantly, with ownership comes responsibility. If
everyone has a part in the creation, we all know what part we’ll have to play
to make it happen.”

In addition Safer AZ is going to expand their cannabis surveys
of elected officials to include candidates for the upcoming 2014 elections. “AZ
doesn’t have a drug problem, we have a political problem and this is how you
solve it. We need to educate the public about who they are voting for and the
candidates need to be educated that this community is tired of being ignored,” Weisser
smiled. “We vote, we volunteer, and we’re watching.”

Thursday, June 5, 2014

It's questionnaire season and the rightwing think tank, Center
for Arizona Policy's, questionnaire is known far and wide as the liberals’
3rd rail of politics. Designed and framed make Tea Party theocrats look good
and everyone else look bad, "it'll kill ya if ya touch it!"

At least that's what progressives are generally told. Timid
consultants typically warn if a progressive tries to answer, CAP'll twist every
answer to make them look as vile as possible, usually through distortion and
cherry picking answers. So, I figured, 'why make 'em cherry pick?' & tried
to guarantee every answer would curl their hair.

Most progressives or liberals haven’t ever had a peek into
the actual mechanics of rightwing propaganda. & even fewer of us get an
opportunity to know that the smartass retorts we always like to think up ever
have a chance to be received by those they’ll most annoy. The specific
structure of the questionnaire also added the extra poet-intriguing
constriction of requiring all answers be 25 words or less, turning each reply
into a pithy practice in Twitter-age long-form haiku. Or something like it.

Here are their questions and my answers.

Why are you running?

The religious right-wing are destroying our country and
someone needs to devote themselves full-time to dismantling the power of the
GOP and groups like CAP.

RATE these topics:
support, oppose, decline to answer:

Repealing the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act.

Greedy corporations, irresponsible think tanks and heartless
doctors have attacked American patients for too long. Attacks on the ACA have
to be stopped.

Providing Federal funding to Planned
Parenthood and other organizations that provide abortions.

Planned Parenthood is our most important women's health
organization and its opponents create havoc and misery. Groups like CAP must
stop trying to control vaginas.

Arizona’s voter-approved constitutional
definition of marriage should be defended to the fullest extent legally
possible

As a voter, I disapproved of that piece of anti-American
injustice and will work to dismantle it.

Protecting individuals and businesses
from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a
manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.

There are all the protections in place necessary for bigots
who value ideology over commerce. Let them be left behind. America doesn't want
them.

Amending the U.S. Constitution to require
Congress to balance the federal budget every year.

What a waste of energy! Our government has purposes to serve
that transcend petty propaganda. Folks who want this understand neither
government or humanity.

Raising the federal minimum wage.

I oppose greedy bosses who want to treat workers like slaves
and sham think tanks that shill for American poverty in trade for campaign
donations.

Prohibiting abortion except where it is
necessary to prevent the death of the mother.

I oppose anti-scientific repressive theocracy dictating
public policy, medical technique and scientific progress. If Luddites want to
live that way, sure, but not make policy.

Congress should consider the selective
removal of the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts when they fail to observe the
separation of powers.

Is this a joke question? A test to see if I'm attentive? If
Congress did that THEY would be failing to observe separation of powers.

Changes to the World Wide Web that would
make pornography available online only as an "opt-in" service.

Again w theocracy? Your most laughable suggestion so far.
Besides the enormous impracticality of implementation, the immense popularity
of porn shows how wrongheaded this is.

Amending the federal Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act to place further restrictions on the establishment and expansion
of gambling by Indian tribes in the United States

Theocratic condescension + repressive business regulation to
stifle competition of an already oppressed severely disadvantaged minority.
Sounds like you guys.

For more fun battling the right in general and CAP in
particular, the Mikel Weisser for US Congress campaign encourages
activist-readers to support and/or join AZ’s premier CAP-bashers: Citizens for a
Better Arizona.

Led by Randy Parraz,
one of AZ’s premier progressive activists, and some of AZ’s
most dynamic progressives such as Chad Snow, Paul Casteneda, Carolyn Cooper
& Fred Barlam, Citizens for a Better AZ is a “a 501 C 4 nonpartisan
organization committed to improving the lives of all Arizonans.” CBA
challenges the Right on a variety of issues including immigration, education,
& civil and voter rights. As you could imagine this battle pits CBA against
CAP on a recurring basis.

About Me

We are occupying the left coast of Arizona, disorganizing people from Yuma to Utah and the Colorado River to Cottonwood! This District was built for an Extremist Republican like the three talking heads that are running, Gould, Gosar, and Babeu. Please help us change the discussion in AZ CD 4. We need your support! Mikel Weisser is a social studies teacher, poet, and activist with progressive vision and energy.